Word: realism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noticeable tendency toward materialistic, slightly "off-color" writing by the female dramatists of the present day is gradually sickening the public and turning them against this type of play, Carroll stated. This form of writing, he asserted, is not true art but photographic realism...
THREE WOMEN-Hazel Hawthorne- Button ($2.50). Although the author strains coincidence to interweave her characters-three girls who are respectively intellectual, conventional and wild -and bears down over-heavily on stream-of-consciousness technique, she writes with considerable realism and sensitivity, particularly succeeds in evoking the neurotic repercussions of the Civil...
...making music onomatopoetic. In his tone poem Don Quixote, muted wind instruments reproduce with waxwork fidelity the distant bleating of a flock of sheep. In his opera Salome, while the heroine gloats, each chop of the knife that severs the head of John the Baptist clunks with horrifying realism from the orchestra pit.. Composer Strauss once boasted that he could put anything into musical terms, even a glass of water...
...most likely museums of Europe, the man still remains unknown. But the work proves to be of the Flemish or Dutch school of the middle of the seventeenth century. This was a time when Flemish sculptors were in demand all over Europe from Italy to Scandinavia. In their vitality, realism and skill in execution, they were peculiarly fitted to express the temper of that epoch...
William E. Hocking, Alford Professor of Philosophy, was the speaker last night in an address broadcast over the radio. His topic was "Realism and Mysticism...